The concert rocked. P.J. Harvey's sound wasn't quite right, but she was still inspiring. Most of the songs were off her new album, but the crowd that was there at the time loved it. Sounded pretty good, so I'll have to check out that album.

U2 brought the house down. They had this heart-shaped stage with lights around the outside ... and people in the middle of it. Bono ran laps at one point during The Fly. They did Desire from the front point of the heart, surrounded on all sides by fans (and security guards).

Bono commented at one point that Stuck in a Moment was written as a conversation between two people, but that the other person was no longer around to have his part of the conversation. Halfway through the song, he grabbed an INXS t-shirt someone up front was holding up. He draped it over a monitor, the light bulb popped, and I realized he meant Michael Hutchence.

Songs included:

Elevation

Beautiful Day

Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of

Kite

Walk On

Stay (Faraway, so close)

Until the End of the World

Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car

The Fly

One

Mysterious Ways

Bullet the Blue Sky (with a cool intro movie involving Charlton Heston, and not in a good light)

All I Want Is You

Where the Streets Have No Name

With or Without You

Pride (in the name of love)

Sunday Bloody Sunday

New Year's Day

And that's just what I remember hearing. They were impressive, with not as much flash as their last tours, but still plenty of neat tricks up their sleeve, from light projections across conveniently dropped rolls of translucent fabric to screens of dancing women to backdrop Mysterious Ways.

The ability to BS on the fly is a very useful skill. There's plenty of places where it comes in handy to sound perfectly reasonable and rational when lying like crazy. That's sincerity instead of honesty, or at least the ability to sound completely sincere regardless of the truth of your statements.